How Much Does MVP Development Cost? Three Real Price Points
Develop It Today, , 3 min read
MVP development cost depends on what you are testing. Here is what a landing page, a single feature and a full MVP cost, and what drives the price.
Quotes for the same MVP can differ by ten times. That is rarely because one team is cheating you. It is because "MVP" gets used for three different things, and each one costs a different amount.
We sell MVPs at fixed prices, so this is the ladder we use, and the reasoning behind it.
The short answer
- Landing page MVP: $1,497, 7 days. A real offer, a designed page, working lead capture and analytics. It tests whether anyone wants the thing.
- Single feature build: $3,997, 14 days. One working feature with a database and login, so you can test whether people use it.
- Full MVP: $7,997, 28 days. A launch-ready product with authentication, a database, and a payment path where the scope includes one.
Anything that does not fit those, such as multi-tenant architecture or unusual compliance requirements, is a custom build and is priced from a written brief.
Why the same idea gets quoted so differently
Three things move the price more than anything else.
1. What you are trying to learn
A demand question ("will people sign up?") needs a page. A usage question ("will they come back?") needs one working feature. A revenue question ("will they pay?") needs auth, data and payments. Building the third when you only need the first is the most common way founders overspend.
2. Scope that is written down
Open-ended scope is what makes hourly quotes balloon. When every screen, state and integration is listed before work starts, the price stops moving. Anything outside the list becomes a change order with its own price, which is what keeps a fixed price honest.
3. Who owns the infrastructure
Some builds hide cost in hosting markups or a platform you cannot leave. We build inside accounts you own, on Vercel, Supabase and Stripe, and transfer the repository on ship day. That means no licence and no retainer, so the price you pay is the whole price.
What is usually not in the build price
Be careful with any quote that ignores these. They are real costs, just billed by someone else.
- Hosting and database plans on your own accounts.
- Payment processing fees from Stripe.
- Email sending, if your product sends email.
- Marketing. A launched MVP with no traffic teaches you nothing.
How to keep the cost down without cutting the point
Start one rung lower than feels natural. If you are unsure demand exists, put a page in front of strangers first. It is a week of work and the cheapest experiment available. If the page does not convert, you have spent $1,497 to learn that instead of $7,997.
Then build the single feature that carries the idea, not everything around it. Admin panels, settings pages and edge-case flows can wait until people are using the core.
One more thing worth knowing: some ideas do not need custom software yet. If a $30 a month tool covers the test, we will say so before you pay.
What a good fixed-price MVP quote contains
- A written scope covering every screen, state and integration.
- One price, with change orders defined for anything outside scope.
- A ship date, and what happens if it is missed.
- Code and accounts that transfer to you.
- A support window after launch.
If a quote is missing any of these, ask for them before you sign.
Where to go from here
You can compare the tiers on the MVP development page, look at every price on the pricing page, or send a brief and get a written scope and fixed quote within 48 hours.